Sentence examples for surviving communities from inspiring English sources

But for a sense that the past weighed especially heavily on the present, few locations could rival Sandy Ground in southwestern Staten Island, one of the nation's oldest surviving communities established by free blacks and a place still inhabited by descendants of the original settlers.

The surviving communities might continue to have an interdisciplinary ELSA profile or they would be more specialised into specific ethical, legal or social aspects (avoiding the double interdisciplinarity of ELSA in natural science projects).

The injury is entirely to the surviving community".

(The Niihau may be the last surviving community of native Hawaiian speakers).

Responding to bitter recriminations that more could have been done to alert Hungarian Jews, the last surviving community in Eastern Europe, to what was in store for them if they were deported, Bauer, in a rare recourse to metaphor, shows how both ordinary Jews and their communal leaders "were caught on an island in shark-infested waters, and they had no boat.

Findings suggest that volunteerism on the part of members of the surviving community following large-scale disaster increases resilience among the volunteers and further contributes to their recovery.

Eighty percent of the surviving community-dwelling men (n = 811) and women (n = 1229) attended a 1988 91 follow-up clinic visit, when cognitive function tests were administered.

This article examines the surviving community-dwelling participants with no history of CHD (angina pectoris, myocardial infarction, or coronary artery revascularization) who participated in a clinic visit in 1997 1999 and returned for a follow-up visit in 2005 2006 (mean interval 4.5 ± 0.5 years).

Nine potential dumping areas were located, but only two survived community objections.

However, the resilience and stability of surviving biological communities remain poorly quantified.

The malabaristas had a particular fascination with this suppressed half of their heritage, drawing inspiration from the myths and art of Mexico's surviving indigenous communities.